What is an Architect?
Welcome to the first in a (hopefully) long and fruitful series of discussions about the role of an architect in the world of software development.... more »
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6 tips to make your fellow coders love you
rticles talk about code readability and provide tips to make life easier for fellow coders that read your code.
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DAO Design Problems
The Data Access Object (DAO) pattern is now a widely accepted mechanism to abstract away the details of persistence in an application. In practice... more »
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jQuery is the most popular JavaScript and Ajax Framework
As you can see the result in this survery of which is the most popular javaScript and Ajax framework, 356(52%) out of 690 web developers voted for... more »
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When bugs really do matter: 22 years after the Therac 25
The ghost of one of history's most infamous race conditions, a radiation treatment machine that gave at least six staggeringly high overdoses,... more »
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AJAX developers continue migrating to unobtrusive JavaScript
Unobtrusive JavaScript is an emerging technique that separates JavaScript from HTML markup. This is quite similar to the separation between styling... more »
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Extending prototype.js
Prototype.js provides a rich set of solid components for building your web applications. Since most of those components are relatively low-level,... more »
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Javascript Super Mario Kart
Seems I just can't let go of Mario. This is a prototype of a Javascript Mario Kart-like racing game. It uses the canvas element to do most of the... more »
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CSS Message Boxes for different message types
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Can you believe this: Few days ago I went to my bank to check my credit score with the Credit Bureau. The bank official typed in my personal data and... more »
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Perfomance Tips for Tomcat and Open BlueDragon
I get a lot of questions on this blog and a lot more per eMail on how to fine tune Tomcat and get it running together on Apache and other stuff. Since... more »
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Good Development Practices - Basic Reading List
It struck me that a good reading list is always welcome to find, and while I suspect most of these books are not entirely new to you, I thought it a... more »
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Criticisms of Spring
The Spring Framework is popular. It has also met with a disturbing lack of criticism. The following remarks are based on Spring 2.0. Spring is huge,... more »
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Spring: Creating Objects So You Don't Have To
As a dependency injection framework (not to mention one of the more popular open source Java projects today), Spring links objects together using XML... more »
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Why use Spring… if you have a HashMap at hand?
Spring is a good framework, and no doubt Dependency Injection is a great way to avoid spaguetti code. But there may be simpler and lighter... more »
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Easiest cross-browser CSS min-height
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Enforcing a minimum height for block elements in HTML is one of those few CSS tricks that you can't live without. There are still enough folks using... more »
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Best practise when handling tags and branches (using subversion)
A good article on how tagging, branching and merging can be done in an organized way.
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Spring XML Hell? Escape XML Hell
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There are some who do not like to configure dependency injection (DI) in XML. They call it "XML Hell"! There are some who even complain about Spring's... more »
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Is the relational database dying?
A short post with an in-depth comment thread discusses whether relational databases will give way to a Semantic Web/RDF-based model.
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YUI 2.5.0 Released — Big upgrades to DataTable, new Layout Manager, Flickr-style multi-file Uploader, and more
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The YUI Team just released version 2.5.0 of the library. We’ve added six new components — Layout Manager, Uploader (multi-file upload engine combining... more »
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Top-10 Application-Design Mistakes
Useful tips here from Jakob if you're designing a web application.
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Open Your Eyes to OSGi
This post covers setting up a an OSGi development environment with Eclipse Equinox. It demonstrates running OSGi from a command prompt and from the... more »
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The Best ever JavaScript coding
See the source. That's how we should write our code. Simply Elegant.
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MXUnit - New ColdFusion Testing Framework
I came across an actively developed ColdFusion Unit Testing Framework a couple weeks ago. MXUnit seems really well thought out and the guys behind it... more »
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Groovy will replace the Java language as dominant language
In 2 to 3 years from now we'll see a clear trend that Groovy is replacing the Java language as the dominant language on the JVM.
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How to Handle Null Values in Code
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One fairly common coding style I have seen from more experienced developers is what I will call highly-aggressive null checking. Such developers have... more »
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